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Daily Archives: January 19, 2011

When I was younger, I loved music so much and I was a very moody person. Music used to be my everyday-everywhere buddy as my mp3 player was always on my pocket and earphones, tightly stuck in my ears. Now, well, I don’t listen to music that much because the shop is SOOO NOISY. Everyday, I hear the gggggrrrs and bbbbrrrrms of motorcycles with the clang-clang and tssssugs of whatever parts. I would have wanted to use a headphone and play my own deafening noise but then, I wouldn’t be able to hear what the babies are ‘saying’. Anyway, way back (three years ago), I loved listening to

… Disney fairy tales songs, Barbie movie songs, Mama Mia songs, Taylor Swift, The Corrs, Colbie Caillat, Mandy Moore, Marie Digby, and Lea Salonga Songs plus some Beyonce, Rihanna, and Jordin Sparks songs when I was HAPPY,
… songs of the Beatles, BeeGees, Air Supply, and old cartoon songs (yeah, the Maskuman type. LOL), and True Faith, Side A, and Martin Nievera songs when I was SAD, and sometimes on emo mode,
… (I loved listening and singing along to the) songs of Parokya ni Edgar, Spongecola, Moonstar88, Kitchie Nadal, Rivermaya, and Bamboo when I was BORED,
… Drive (Incubus), All American Rejects, EmiNem, MatchBox 20, and Linkin Park songs when I was HYPED,
… Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan, Cranberries, and Cold Play when I was MAD.

Now, all the music that I get is that of Spongebob’s, Phineas and Ferb’s, and my very favorite – GLEE 🙂

There are a number of foods that fight fat. Well not literally. Fat fighting foods are those foods that have calorie content too, and they don’t actually burn your stored fat. What most of them do is that they speed up your metabolism so your body can naturally burn your unwanted extra pounds faster. They also limit your body’s natural fat-absorption ability. Here are the top three natural fat burners that you might want to start eating….

1. Citrus fruits – foods rich in Vitamin C like oranges, grapefruit, berries, tangerines, lemons, and limes. These fruits affect our body’s natural capacity to burn fat. Apparently, Vitamin C helps dilute fat so it can easily be flushed out of our system. You know that carnitine substance that is emphasized in many slimming pills and supplements? Your body can naturally get that from your daily dose of Vitamin C. Research even shows that if you lack the right amount of Vitamin C, your weight loss efforts may not become so effective as well.

2. Soybeans – Soybeans increase the body’s HDL a.k.a. “good cholesterol” level and it also has lecithin. Lecithin “shields” your cells from fat and it also helps break down fatty deposits that are already in your body.